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Ginseng Fruit(人参果):
In Chinese, it is pronounced as: rén shēn guǒ,Written as:

Ginseng Fruit is a miraculous immortal fruit. In the 24th chapter of “Journey to the West” by Wu Cheng’en during the Ming Dynasty, it is briefly mentioned that at the Five Village Monastery on Mount Longevity, where Great Zhenyuan Immortal resides, there exists the Ginseng Fruit. Also known as “Grass Return Elixir,” it blooms once every three thousand years, bears fruit every three thousand years, and takes another three thousand years to ripen, making it a total of ten thousand years before it can be consumed. During this span of ten thousand years, only thirty fruits are produced. The fruit resembles a baby less than three days old, complete with limbs and facial features. If a person is fortunate enough to smell the fruit, they will live for 360 years; eating one extends life by 47,000 years. Zhu Bajie, upon hearing the children of the monastery mention the Ginseng Fruit, grew greedy and wanted to taste it. He asked Sun Wukong to pick three from the garden, and Zhu Bajie, Sun Wukong, and Sha Monk each ate one.

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